In Silico Characterization of Pathogenic Homeodomain Missense Mutations in the PITX2 Gene

Vetriselvan, Yogesh and Manoharan, Aarthi and Murugan, Manoranjani and Jayakumar, Swetha and Govindasamy, Chandramohan and Ravikumar, Sambandam (2025) In Silico Characterization of Pathogenic Homeodomain Missense Mutations in the PITX2 Gene. BIOCHEMICAL GENETICS, 63.0 (3). pp. 2489-2512. ISSN 0006-2928

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Abstract

Paired homologous domain transcription factor 2 (PITX2) is critically involved in ocular and cardiac development. Mutations in PITX2 are consistently reported in association with Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome, an autosomal dominant genetic disorder and atrial fibrillation, a common cardiac arrhythmia. In this study, we have mined missense mutations in PITX2 gene from NCBI-dbSNP and Ensembl databases, evaluated the pathogenicity of the missense variants in the homeodomain and C-terminal region using five in silico prediction tools SIFT, PolyPhen2, GERP, Mutation Assessor and CADD. Fifteen homeodomain mutations G42V, G42R, R45W, S49Y, R53W, E53D, E55V, R62H, P65S, R69H, G75R, R84G, R86K, R87W, R91P were found to be highly pathogenic by both SIFT, PolyPhen2 were further functionally characterized using I-Mutant 2.0, Consurf, MutPred and Project Hope. The findings of the study can be used for prioritizing mutations in the context of genetic studies.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: PITX2, Homeodomain, Mutation, Missense variant, Insilico prediction
Subjects: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology > Genetics & Heredity
Chemistry > Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Divisions: Interdisciplinary Studies > Department of Medical Biotechnology, AVMC, Puducherry > Medical Biotechnology
Depositing User: Unnamed user with email techsupport@mosys.org
Last Modified: 06 Feb 2026 07:11
URI: https://ir.vmrfdu.edu.in/id/eprint/6842

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